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DATA FROM THE Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows there was a 5.8 per cent rise in divorces between opposite-sex couples in England and Wales

AFTER BEING MARRIED for some twenty-five years or so it comes as a bit of a shock to find yourself involuntarily single again. Why this